Unable to install F18 into an existing linux partitions.

[Dan Thurman]

I was not able to install F18 via LiveCD/Anaconda
as it appears to insist on (unformatted) free space.

I was able to install F17 with anaconda, which
allowed me to specify the /boot and / software
destination having two partitions wiped out by
newly reformatting them while installing.

In F18, one has a choice to choose LVM, BRFS(?), or
Partition schemes, so I choose the Partition
scheme, checked that I wanted no help, to
manually modify and/or define the software
destination and hovering the cursor over 2nd
button, the highlight says: "Please wait... software
metadata is being loaded" and nothing happens for
over 30 minutes of waiting.

I do not want to use the 'reclaim' button because
this might mess up the partition table and screw
the entire disk.

I also noted that while waiting, I was able to set
the locale, but not allowed to change the date,
time nor 12/24 hour selections, they are greyed out,
even though I was able to do this on the time/date
menubar but this has nothing to do with anaconda.

So, what can I do at this point?

[poma]

On 08.04.2013 07:49, nomnex wrote:
> > On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:24:28 +0200
> > poma <pomidorabelisima(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> >
> >>> Don't even try to count how many holes does Swiss cheese have. :)
>  
>  Those are not holes, but engineered air compartments designed to enhance
>  the cheese flavor. You probably refers to the French Emmental which is
>  indeed full of holes ;)
>   
A figure of speech. ;)

poma

[nomnex]

>  On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:24:28 +0200
>  poma <pomidorabelisima(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>
>  >> Don't even try to count how many holes does Swiss cheese have. :) 
Those are not holes, but engineered air compartments designed to enhance
the cheese flavor. You probably refers to the French Emmental which is
indeed full of holes ;)

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[poma]

On 07.04.2013 21:13, Joe Zeff wrote:
>  On 04/07/2013 11:54 AM, poma wrote:
> > On 07.04.2013 19:45, Joe Zeff wrote:
> >> On 04/07/2013 05:43 AM, poma wrote:
> >>> Blivet[1] ain't Disk Druid. ;)
> >>
> >> Especially when you look at the picture and realize that they got the
> >> name wrong: that's a Three prong, two hole Poiuyt.
> >
> > Don't even try to count how many holes does Swiss cheese have. :)
> > The next version of Fedora will be called 42.
> >
>  
>  Yup!  Rule 42: "All persons more than a mile high are to leave the
>  courtroom immediately."  It's the oldest rule in the book.
>  
>  BTW, the name I gave for that comes from MAD Magazine, back in the '60s.
>   
Unfortunately no one knows what the question is. :)

poma

[Joe Zeff]

On 04/07/2013 11:54 AM, poma wrote:
>  On 07.04.2013 19:45, Joe Zeff wrote:
> > On 04/07/2013 05:43 AM, poma wrote:
> >> Blivet[1] ain't Disk Druid. ;)
> >
> > Especially when you look at the picture and realize that they got the
> > name wrong: that's a Three prong, two hole Poiuyt.
>
>  Don't even try to count how many holes does Swiss cheese have. :)
>  The next version of Fedora will be called 42.
>  
Yup!  Rule 42: "All persons more than a mile high are to leave the 
courtroom immediately."  It's the oldest rule in the book.

BTW, the name I gave for that comes from MAD Magazine, back in the '60s.

[poma]

On 07.04.2013 03:43, Dan Thurman wrote:
>  
>  I was not able to install F18 via LiveCD/Anaconda
>  as it appears to insist on (unformatted) free space.
>  
>  I was able to install F17 with anaconda, which
>  allowed me to specify the /boot and / software
>  destination having two partitions wiped out by
>  newly reformatting them while installing.
>   
Blivet[1] ain't Disk Druid. ;)

>  In F18, one has a choice to choose LVM, BRFS(?), or 
B-tree file system(BTRFS)[3] ;)

>  Partition schemes, so I choose the Partition
>  scheme, checked that I wanted no help, to
>  manually modify and/or define the software
>  destination and hovering the cursor over 2nd
>  button, the highlight says: "Please wait... software
>  metadata is being loaded" and nothing happens for
>  over 30 minutes of waiting. 
Mamma mia! :)

>  I do not want to use the 'reclaim' button because
>  this might mess up the partition table and screw
>  the entire disk. 
http://goo.gl/Z8XSW
Notice the lower right corner.

>  I also noted that while waiting, I was able to set
>  the locale, but not allowed to change the date,
>  time nor 12/24 hour selections, they are greyed out,
>  even though I was able to do this on the time/date
>  menubar but this has nothing to do with anaconda. 
http://goo.gl/jWDbr
Notice the upper right corner.

>  So, what can I do at this point? 
Blivet[1] is still in diapers[2].
Therefore, you can attempt to install with the recent version.
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Alpha-TC5/Fedora/i386/iso/F...
http://goo.gl/MN3xc ;)

poma


[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Blivet
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=blivet
[3] https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

[poma]

On 07.04.2013 19:45, Joe Zeff wrote:
>  On 04/07/2013 05:43 AM, poma wrote:
> > Blivet[1] ain't Disk Druid. ;)
>  
>  Especially when you look at the picture and realize that they got the
>  name wrong: that's a Three prong, two hole Poiuyt. 
Don't even try to count how many holes does Swiss cheese have. :)
The next version of Fedora will be called 42.

poma

[Joe Zeff]

On 04/07/2013 05:43 AM, poma wrote:
>  Blivet[1] ain't Disk Druid. ;) 
Especially when you look at the picture and realize that they got the 
name wrong: that's a Three prong, two hole Poiuyt.